Robin L. Murray teaches courses in film studies, English education, and multicultural American literature. Her research and service interests are in ecocriticism and film studies, women's studies, and composition theory and practice. She has co-authored six published books: Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge (SUNY Press 2009), That’s All Folks?:Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features (U Nebraska Press 2011), Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Film and the Environment (U Oklahoma Press 2012), Everyday Ecodisasters in Documentary and Fictional Films (U Nebraska Press2014), Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen,and Ecocinema in the City. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and theEnvironment, Jump Cut, and other film and literary journals.

She also directs the Eastern Illinois Writing Project (http://castle.eiu.edu/easternnwp/) and coordinates the Film Studies Minor (http://castle.eiu.edu/filmmnor/)

Frequently Taught Courses

Film 3759G, History of Cinema
English 3504, Film and Literature
English 4904, Studies in Film
English 5585, Eastern Illinois Writing Project Summer Institute
English 3401, Methods of Teaching Composition
Engiish 3402, Methods of Teaching Literature
English 3705, Multicultural American Literature

Education

PhD, University of Toledo; M.A., The Ohio State University; B.A., Oakland University

"How Bambi Hoodwinked American Environmentalists: The Sentimental Disney Cartoon Cemented the Myth That Man and Nature Can't Coexist." What it Means to Be an American, a partnership of the Smithsonian and Zocalo Public Square. 19 Apr 2016. Web. (With Joseph K. Heumann).